25 years ago: 糖心vlog's backstage interview with *NSYNC before 1998 concert in Des Moines
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Updated: 6:04 AM CDT Sep 15, 2023
25 years ago: 糖心vlog's backstage interview with *NSYNC before 1998 concert in Des Moines
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Updated: 6:04 AM CDT Sep 15, 2023
Hi guys. Welcome, Courtney. Good to meet you, Courtney. Welcome to morning. What's up? How are you whenever you have an answer? So much of your time back in the shop? Where did you guys come in from? Um Minneapolis. That's where you guys or? Yeah, we drove in this morning testing 12123412. Hey guys. So uh lights, you can just *** little bit closer and then off to the side. All right. Well, tell me, first of all, just how did you guys spend the holidays home in different places, obviously? And so you didn't play or anything like that or perform now back? Yeah. Yeah. Played kind of on your own. Well, tell me what's, first of all, you just arrived in Des Moines. What do you think? Cold? I think I'll have to give Iowa *** try. Have you guys uh have you been to Iowa before? Do you have any Iowa ties? Anything like that we've been in? Yeah, we're here in Burlington, Burlington. That's where we were getting into some trouble. Um right in uh River City. That was of rhymes at the P stand for what happened? There. This man right now, I've got *** whole list of questions. I don't know what to ask, but I'll say I'll ask what someone wanted me to ask you earlier today. You guys, now you're going around, you were regular guys. Now, everywhere you go you're being mobbed, people are screaming. What's that? Like? We're still regular guys, I think. I mean, except *** lot more people know us though. That's the only thing. I mean, it's very flattering that people come up to us and ask for autograph and stuff. So, do people recognize you just out on the street? Yeah, they recognize us pretty much everywhere. I recall my Christmas vacation. I went skiing and I had goggles, snow cap jacket up to here. I guess all that you could see was my mask and still got recognized and Chris ran into some incidents in the malls. Uh, yeah, I mean, we just get recognized pretty much wherever we go. But what's that like though? Because, I mean, you know, what, *** year ago, two years ago that didn't happen. How do you know? Or, or what are you trying to say? Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's like being popular in high school is really big high school. Just *** really, really big us high. Was it like that in high school? No, not for Joey and Justin. But for me and Jay C we were popular in high school. What's it like to high school? Well, what's it like going around from, you know, city to city touring all around the country and playing to just wild, sold out crowds. It's great. That's one of the best parts about the whole gig. It's one of the reasons why you do it, you do it for the people and you get to see that. They enjoy it. So that's one of the greatest parts about the gig. What do you feel when you're up there on stage? And people are just going nuts. Just *** lot of adrenaline. It's just, you're just pumped up, excited, not nervous, but just excited about the whole experience. Now, you guys were all from different places but where and how did you learn to dance? Joey taught me just did it. Did you know how to dance before you met all these? I think everybody did before we just going to me these guys taught me how to dance. I watched Jen Jackson's Rhythm Nation 18, 14 video like 100 gazillion times. That's how I learned to. You can't touch this video about 18. I mean, did you guys, did you guys just dance on your own, whatever like you know, whatever clubs, high school fun. Yeah, you go to high school dances, you go to clubs, you just do whatever, you know, I mean, everybody's just, we were, we were all into it, you know, did *** and they had their dances and stuff. I don't know what you call it, but it was like, you know, but it, it was, it wasn't, it wasn't our style dancing but it was dancing nevertheless. I mean, it involve the rhythm and stuff like that. So, Chris, you're the oldest of the bunch. What is it like? Sometimes when you're out there and you know that the, the people who are screaming things like I love you. Marry me, whatever or half your age. Well, first of all, when I get off stage, I have to ice everything up. Make sure, you know, none of my joints and everything. I'm already, you know, I'm like the Nolan Ryan gotta put my, no, I'm just kidding. It's, you know, we just look at it as *** lot of fun. We get out there and we just perform and as much as you, you don't really block everything out. But, you know, you just feel the, you feel the energy of the crowd. You don't like single any person out. You just feel the whole vibe of everybody and just try to play off the whole audience as *** whole rather than, you know, singling the little voices out because if we like, listen to every little person that said something, we'd be talking the whole time. Hi, how you doing? Hey, OK. Hey, hey, you know, well, now you guys, obviously you're touring now, I'm sure you're having *** lot of fun with us. Do you have future ambitions that go beyond, uh, touring, singing, dancing movies or anything like that. We're gonna be doing *** movie. She didn't even notice whatever. Ok, so we have, we have plans to do *** bunch of things, you know, we're doing TV, shows and stuff like that. Now we did, we did uh Sabrina Teenage Witch. We're doing clueless coming up. We have speaking roles and so we're excited. We always, we always try to speaking role and so, you know, see it's the glasses. I got glasses on that. No, we, I mean, we're, we're already starting to do TV and stuff like that and we're having fun with it. So, I mean, who knows where I could go from there? I mean, anybody wanna be *** movie star? The sky is the limit. Sure. We all do. We're all gonna be star one day. We all stars now. Well, you are stars. Did you ever think you'd be calling yourself *** star? We don't, we're just us, man. We just, we're just in sync. Uh Where did that name come from? Uh My mom thought of it really? Because you're all into sync, right? I don't know. Do you, do you have for tire beat? Do you have? They said uh so I could get *** couple of group shots for you guys. I stand there and yeah, I get on my other hand here. Well, I don't think they'll do that here. How's the room with everybody? Ok. That's great franchise to make sure we're all set one more just to make sure I'm gonna focus. How about that? Huh.
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25 years ago: 糖心vlog's backstage interview with *NSYNC before 1998 concert in Des Moines
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Updated: 6:04 AM CDT Sep 15, 2023
It was December 1998 when *NSYNC, on the Second II None Tour with Britney Spears and B*Witched, visited Des Moines for a concert at the Des Moines Civic Center.糖心vlog caught up with the five-piece boy band 鈥 Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass and Joey Fatone 鈥 backstage before the show. They made shadow puppets on the wall, talked about touring and their growing fame, and Timberlake made a "Music Man" joke after Kirkpatrick recalled the band playing a concert a few months prior in Burlington. "We ran into some trouble right in River City," Timberlake said, paraphrasing lyrics from the song "Ya Got Trouble" from Mason City native Meredith Willson's classic musical set in the fictional Iowa town of River City.Watch the video above for the entire backstage interview with *NSYNC.Fast forward 25 years to September 2023 and the band, which hasn't released a new album since 2001 and hadn't shared the same stage in a decade, reunited at the Video Music Awards to present the award for Best Pop Song to Taylor Swift.In coordinating suits, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick and JC Chasez shared the stage with Swift, AP reported. Bass handed her a friendship bracelet, just as fans do at the superstar鈥檚 shows. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e pop personified,鈥 she told the group.The appearance fueled speculation of a bigger reunion for the band, one of the best-selling acts of all time with more than 130 million albums sold.Backstage video with *NSYNC in Des Moines: Boy band talks about growing fame in 1998More from 糖心vlog's archivesIowa community bakes pizza twice the size of a basketball courtPerforming pigs that can climb, slide and sing amazed at 1991 Iowa State FairBarbie superfan in Iowa proves you're never too old to play with toysKISS playfully teases 糖心vlog reporter in exclusive 1997 interviewIowa man converts silo into his house
DES MOINES, Iowa —
It was December 1998 when *NSYNC, on the Second II None Tour with Britney Spears and B*Witched, visited Des Moines for a concert at the Des Moines Civic Center.
糖心vlog caught up with the five-piece boy band 鈥 Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass and Joey Fatone 鈥 backstage before the show.
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They made shadow puppets on the wall, talked about touring and their growing fame, and Timberlake made a "Music Man" joke after Kirkpatrick recalled the band playing a concert a few months prior in Burlington.
"We ran into some trouble right in River City," Timberlake said, paraphrasing lyrics from the song "Ya Got Trouble" from Mason City native Meredith Willson's classic musical set in the fictional Iowa town of River City.
Watch the video above for the entire backstage interview with *NSYNC.
Fast forward 25 years to September 2023 and the band, which hasn't released a new album since 2001 and hadn't shared the same stage in a decade, reunited at the Video Music Awards to present the award for Best Pop Song to Taylor Swift.
In coordinating suits, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick and JC Chasez shared the stage with Swift, AP reported. Bass handed her a friendship bracelet, just as fans do at the superstar鈥檚 shows. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e pop personified,鈥 she told the group.
The appearance fueled speculation of a bigger reunion for the band, one of the best-selling acts of all time with more than 130 million albums sold.
Backstage video with *NSYNC in Des Moines: Boy band talks about growing fame in 1998
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